Brechites Guettard 1770 (watering pot shell)
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Bivalvia - Pandorida - Penicillidae
Parent taxon: Penicillidae according to B. Morton 2007
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Foegia, Humphreyia, Kendrickiana, Nipponoclava, Penicillus, Pseudobrechites, Warnea
Subtaxa: Brechites (Brechites)
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Eritrea (1), Taiwan (1), Yemen (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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